Internet Phone/Voice Chat Question.
 

Hi all:

I have a friend who uses MSN and chats via phone/voice over net. With what software can I Voice/Phone chat, with me using Linux and the other person using msn ? Currently, I am using the Debian HD install of Knoppix. The other user just uses Windows.

I am really sort of new at this and would appreciate assistance.

Thanks.

Vijay :confused:

I did find this, though I've never used it. I use skype myself, so I've never needed to find another solution. (Works perfectly under linux too, it's free as in beer, but not speech. I wanted a voip solution, so I choose to support (read that as "give my money to") a company that takes the effort to put out a working linux cliet. (It's free to contact other skype users via computer to computer, but I wanted to recieve calls from land lines and cell phones, as well as make them, both of which cost a wee bit of cash. $12 for 3 months for the incoming number, and $14 a year for outgoing calls (to landlines or cell phones). Anyway.....back to your question)

http://blog.mypapit.net/2005/09/gaim...e-support.html

They have an apt source listed at the bottom. If you are using debian I'm sure you'll know how to add that to sources.list and let apt do the heavy lifting.

Looks like gain/pigdin or whatever they are calling themselves now are working on yahoo voice, and I think msn too, but I don't know if they have released anything yet.

Good luck...

David

Edit....
Thought I'd post the apt source directly here. I haven't tried it myself, so use at your own risk, as always.

#gaim-vv
deb http://people.debian.org/~smimram/debian unstable main
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~smimram/debian unstable main

Thanks for the above post. Presently it only supports webcam and no voice chat. Wonder if there is something else that supports Voicechat.

I tried skype before and it didn't install well for me. Also, tried this under wine, again it failed.

Vijay

Hi, I noticed in your profile you use vector ? Was this the distro you tried skype under ? Or was it knoppix ? I use Kubuntu myself, but skype "just worked" on both my laptop and my desktop, using the official skype debian apt-sources, and is worth checking out.

This probably doesn't help you out much, but I did find voice support for the yahoo protocol.

http://blog.mypapit.net/2006/12/gyac...-for-linux.htm

Just a thought, have you tried installing the windows version of gaim under wine ? Or miranda or trillian ? Miranda is java based, so it might work a little better. This might be an area linux is almost there, but not quite.

Good luck...

David

Great suggestions thanks. My Profile is old. Presently I use Debian Hard Drive install of Knoppix.

Looking forward to more suggestions and also experiences from other linux users who have walked the same path. This could also help others users in the future.

Vijay :)